Wednesday, February 3, 2010

Avatar continued its blitz on the Irish market over last weekend. Its all-Ireland take on 3D is up to €6,547,510 while 2D has taken €1,142,939. Fifty-three 3D 'prints' took nine times the amount taken by forty-eight 2D prints over the weekend.

Only one of the openers made it into the top ten for the weekend, Mel Gibson's on-screen come-back, Edge of Darkness, which took the number two spot behind Avatar.

Released the previous weekend on sixty prints by Lionsgate, Jim Sheridan's Brothers slipped back by about 20% but held on to the number five position. However it hasn't made the top ten in the UK.

Precious opened with €19,100 from four prints, interesting to see if it picks up off the back of its Oscar nominations.